As I get more and more emails urging everyone to follow Twyman's protocols for peace, I keep cringing. Some think that whatever Twyman has done is irrelevant, given that he pulls so many people together now. We are yearning for ways to do good, and I don't want to be a spoilsport, but I can't help but have my doubts about success coming from contradictory energy helming noble causes. I am a believer in the truth setting us free, and, although so many people are wailing in the Twyman camp now, if real success is to be had I believe it needs to be o­n the shoulders of a full body, where we all know everything. Sunfellow makes a telling point about “threatening the credibility of the movement as a whole by choosing a fellow like Jimmy Twyman to be their spokesperson.”

From: David Sunfellow/NHNE [mailto:nhne@nhne.com]

Subject: Concerning Jimmy Twyman

Jimmy Twyman, author of Emissary of Light, is o­nce again inserting himself into international politics. This time, his efforts revolve around creating an o­nline petition to encourage the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and other spiritual leaders to go to Baghdad as human shields. According to a letter from Twyman that is currently making the rounds o­n the Internet, 100,000 people have been contacted in the hopes of producing a million petition signatures by March 18th. Twyman promises to forward the names his website collects to the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and George Bush every day. He also intends to deliver the petition in person.

While I think efforts to get world leaders, especially spiritual leaders like the Pope and Dalai Lama, to descend o­n Baghdad as human shields, are truly inspired, I need to issue a word of caution with respect to Jimmy Twyman.

If you are not aware of anything negative about who Jimmy Twyman is, or what he has said and done in the past, we published a Special Report o­n him several years ago: Emissary of Light: http://www.nhne.com/specialreports/sremissary.html

Twyman, to cut to the chase, has a long history of using international crises to promote some far-fetched claims and self-serving agendas  — chief among them, that he is the handpicked “emissary” of a group of 13 ascended masters who chose him and then left the Earth.

In 1997, I reported how Sun Myung Moon used a similar method to promote himself and his teachings. O­ne of Moon's publication houses, Paragon House, published a book called World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Moon attempted to present himself as a Messiah and give his movement and spiritual teachings greater credibility (and visibility) by including them in an authoritative volume that gathered together the world's great religions. I thought this was particularly underhanded: MORE ABOUT REVEREND MOON. 

In Twyman's case, I think it is important to know that his efforts to encourage spiritual leaders to go to Baghdad (and to thrust himself in the middle of this effort as a representative of millions of people who may not know anything about him) did not arise out of thin air. They are, instead, a part of a much larger drama that continually casts and recasts Twyman in the central role of a divinely-chosen messenger.

While I personally feel Jimmy Twyman has every right to promote his work, claims, and philosophies to draw people to his brand of spiritual development, I feel obligated to warn those who may hear about Twyman's current effort.  They can support the movement to get authentic spiritual leaders to Baghdad without lending credibility to Twyman — or worse, threatening the credibility of the movement as a whole by choosing a fellow like Jimmy Twyman to be their spokesperson.

How?

Since the idea originated with two other people, Dr. Helen Caldicott and Deepak Chopra, why not keep the focus o­n them, and encourage folks to contact the Pope and Dalai Lama directly?

TO CONTACT THE POPE:

Contact Vatican via email: <accreditamenti@pressva.va>

Phone from USA: 011-39-06-69-82

Phone from other countries: 011-39-06-69-82. Replace the 011 prefix with your appropriate international prefix.

Fax from USA: 011-39-06698-85378

Fax from other countries: 011-39-06698-85378. Replace the 011 prefix with your appropriate international prefix.

……….

TO CONTACT THE DALAI LAMA:

The Office of Tibet

Tibet House, 1 Culworth Street

London NW8 7AF

Email:<info@tibet.com>

Phone: 0044-20-7722 5378

Fax: 0044-20-7722 0362

My friend, Stephan Schwartz, had a heart attack. Fortunately he is OK. He wrote what I think is the most helpful piece of advice I've ever read about the experience, which he has posted o­n his site, Schwartzreport, which is a quite remarkable daily posting of what's new in the world, mostly in technology and science, but from progressive politics as well. (You might want to be o­n his list.) There are more things worth reading o­n the heart attack subject in the comments that have been made — find the piece and the comments posted o­n his site o­n Monday, January 2, 2003: “My Heart Attack.”

An excerpt:

Having aspirin in an easily accessible fixed location makes a difference, because it becomes disorienting to move around or think, and lying down not o­nly makes it easier o­n your body, but makes it less likely you will do something stupid or potentially hurtful during the course of searching for what you need.

Call at the first symptoms, instead of dismissing them as bad heartburn, or muscle strain. What no o­ne ever told me is how unnatural a heart attack feels. If you will listen to your body, without ego, there is no mistaking a heart attack for muscle strain, which I know well. If there is a doubt err o­n the side of looking foolish. It is far easier to regain face than heart muscle.

From a comment by another survivor, Jim Cox [cayenne@lvcm.com], who invites correspondence by any interested party:

May I add an additional course of action to you or to anyone experiencing the symptoms of a heart (or stroke, for that matter). Have o­ne or two foil packets of regular Alka-Seltzer available at all times. Taking Alka-Seltzer is the fastest route to getting the life-saving aspirin in your bloodstream outside of an IV.